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How about Post Traumatic Growth?

 Can I hear an amen?!?

Our hardest seasons make us the people we are meant to be. That can be hard to hold onto when going through divorce.

Shame infiltrates the experience of divorce.
 
One of my clients, a wonderful woman, didn't want her neighbors to know her husband had left their home. She avoided getting the mail or taking out the trash during daylight. She pulled into her garage, turned off the car, and pressed the button to lower the garage door. She did not open the door and step one boot tip out until the garage door was completely closed. She didn't water the plants on her front porch. The gardenia she had been nurturing for 2 years was, within two weeks, dry and dead.
 
Yes, shame infiltrates the experience of divorce.
 
Don't buy into the notion that this shame is somehow deserved and justified.
 
Is the person or culture triggering the shame qualified to deliver it?
 
As far as the culture, how could they possibly know all that you have been through ...
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A Wealth of Opportunites Will Be Yours, Provided You Adopt This One Critical Quality

Oh to have a wealth of opportunity! Each day to be invited by the universe to peruse all that is new. To be willing to fearlessly experiment with a new plot for success. To find problem-solving to be a form of play and the greatest challenges as puzzles waiting for us to figure them out. 

"I'd have to change my entire being!" Carl,  a former podiatrist my grandmother likes to chat with, told me over tea on her patio. Au Contraire Dear Carl; this quality allows you to celebrate yourself for being exactly who you are, even when things don't go as planned. Carl next confided in a deeper voice just above a whisper, "I'm probably too old."

Nope. This quality is accessible to all humans of every age. Simply be deliberate in adopting it and this utopia of accessible adventure can be yours, provided you adopt one critical quality.

It is the right mindset, a growth rather than a fixed mindset.

 Mindset deeply impacts our lives.

With a growth mindset you have confidence that your abilities ...

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